MENTOR NETWORK

Your opportunity to connect with Tampa Bay’s tech startup community

MENTOR NETWORK

Your opportunity to connect with Tampa Bay’s tech startup community

Wave mentors are essential to furthering our mission because they guide Accelerator members through the process of building, launching, and growing a successful tech startup. Wave mentors are industry experts who are determined to make meaningful, strategic relationships with Wave Accelerator members.

Meet the Wave mentors who are accelerating tech startups and having a positive impact on Tampa Bay’s success.

Marc Matyas

Marc Matyas has a uniquely diverse professional background as both an entrepreneur and restaurateur. He has developed and refined his business skills across emerging technology, hospitality, culinary and government sectors. He has a depth of experience across all key business areas including strategic development, operations, technology, project management, marketing and government relations.

Marc has been on the ground floor of multiple technology startups including e-commerce, mobile, CRM and customer service based businesses both stateside and abroad. As well, he has successfully launched, expanded and assisted a multitude of restaurants including owning and operating his own award-winning New York City restaurant. In addition, Marc has worked in New York State Government’s Economic Development helping attract the tech sector to the State.

Marc and his family recently moved to St. Petersburg, Florida after spending over 25 years living and working in New York City. He graduated with Honors from Columbia University and was featured in Columbia Magazine’s “30 under 30.” Marc has also appeared on the Fine Living Channel’s “Radical Sabbatical” which chronicled his career transition from tech to hospitality, and he has also appeared on the Food Network and Cooking Channel.

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Focus In:

Attorney

Law

Corporate Law

Securities Law

Nelson Castellano

Nelson Castellano joined the firm in 1992, became a Shareholder in 1999. He is a member of the firm's Executive Board and previously co-chaired the Business Transactions Practice Group. Nelson's practice focuses primarily on corporate and business matters, providing general business advice to emerging growth and middle market companies, capital raising transactions, including private placements of debt and equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and business formation and entity selection. His practice also includes venture capital transactions, purchase and sale transactions, compensation and equity arrangements, and securities law.

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Focus In:

Leadership

Start-Ups

Cloud Computing

Microsoft Dynamics

Saas

Professional Services

Microsoft CRM

Sharepoint

Management Consulting

Tony DiBenedetto

Tony DiBenedetto leads the strategic direction and development of Tribridge. As Chairman and CEO, he oversees corporate operations and ensures the firm's lines of business, community relations and culture are securely positioned for greater innovation and growth. The recipient of numerous leadership awards, including the Ernst & Young Florida Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in Technology and induction into the Florida State University College of Business Hall of Fame, Tony has dedicated his entire career to the areas of business innovation, customer advocacy and servant leadership. Tony co-founded Tribridge in 1998 and has led the firm through the successful acquisition and integration of several companies, resulting in a compounded annual growth rate of over 40 percent each year. Under his guidance, Tribridge has grown from a start-up company to one of the leading technology services providers in the United States.

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Focus In:

Lead Generation

SEO

Web Analytics

Affiliate Marketing

PPC

Online Advertising

Mergers and Acquisitions

Corporate Development

Chad Jaquays

Chad started building and optimizing websites in 1996. In 2000, he co-founded trafficstrategies.com, and later became the founder and CEO of crowdsavings.com. He also worked at nCrowd, where he was CTO and sat on their Board of Directors.
Chad was a finalist for Tampa Bay Business CEO of the Year in 2012 in Biz Tech, and was also listed in the Tampa Bay Business Journal Fast 50 in 2006.
Chad leads the strategy and growth of the company's Paid Search channel. He and his team are always developing new strategies aimed at driving innovation and growth for Rakuten Marketing and its clients.

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Focus In:

SMB Advertising

Classified and Print Advertising

Telemarketing Sales

Voiceover Work

Do Not Call Compliance

Marc Mandt

Responsible for the newly created Flyer Digital division for The Flyer. This new division is responsible for launching and managing new digital products and services to serve our Customer base in both the Tampa Bay and South Florida markets.
Additional work experience includes serving as the Region Manager in the Americas for Mascus and being the Founder and CEO of Adalia Media.

Enrico
Palumbo

Daniel
Caccamo

Lance
Raab

Gerwai
Todd

Jim
Gossett

Tom
Panaggio

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Business Development

Sales and Marketing Strategy

Business Modeling

Executive Coaching

Enrico Palumbo

Global Sage Group, LLC Owner

Mr. Palumbo is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the Global Sage Group, LLC. He sets the vision, direction and the strategy for the enterprise. He specializes in the delivery of enterprise-wide business transformation strategy. He has been instrumental in the delivery of leadership business consulting, intended to improve performance. He has more than 45 years of business experience, with emphasis on improving business performance.
Prior to founding GSG, Mr. Palumbo was a member of the founders group of Answerthink, where he served as the Director of IT Strategy. Mr. Palumbo was the Director of World Class IT in the Northeast geography and the Nolan Norton practice at KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP. Mr. Palumbo was employed at Digital for nineteen years in a variety of very senior assignments, such as the Director of IT Strategy Consulting, where he lead the delivery of cutting edge consulting methodology and services globally. He led the introduction of the object paradigm into IT transformation-consulting services. Mr. Palumbo also served on the leadership teams at Marshall’s Department Stores and Raytheon Company.
Mr. Palumbo holds a BA in Management and an MBA from Southern Hampshire University. He is also the Managing Director of a non-profit organization focused on children and play therapy products and services.

Lance Raab

Founder and CEO at JazzMedia, a privately held company that owns, develops and invests in domain names and internet web ventures. Successful entrepreneur and business executive who is a board member at the Tampa Bay Wave.

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Business Development

Leadership

Sales Management

Strategic Planning

Solution Selling

Business Strategy

Software Development

Gerwai Todd

He is a versatile professional with the ability to lead sales, business development, product management and customer service operations. He combines excellent customer skills with strong analytical skills to uncover and assess opportunities and challenges.

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Focus In:

Strategy

Vision and Mission Planning

Transformational Innovation

Sales

Marketing

Software Development

Contract Negotiations

Strategic Alliances

Jim Gossett

Over 18 years successful experience of delighting clients through cultivation and leadership of an ecosystem bonding internal teams together to eliminate obstacles and create innovative solutions within an agile framework that adds value to clients rapidly and profitably.
Dynamic, results-driven leader with a strong track record of performance in turnaround and high-paced organizations as well as M&A environments. Leverage analysis, insights, and team approach to drive organizational improvements and implementations of best practices to achieve strategic goals. Superior organizational skills, capable of resolving multiple and complex (sales, human resources, technical, innovation, and operational) issues and motivating staff to peak performance.

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Focus In:

Problem Solving

Public Speaking

Marketing Consultation

Opportunity and Risk Management

Tom Panaggio

Tom holds a thirty-year entrepreneurial career as cofounder of two successful direct marketing companies. As a result, he can give a true perspective on starting and running a small business. His practical approach to business concepts and leadership is grounded in the belief that success is the result of a commitment to embracing risk as a way to ensure opportunity.
In 1983 Tom cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy. DME has always been on the leading edge of marketing technology and is still recognized as an industry leader in personalized digital marketing.
As CEO of spin-off RME in Tampa, Florida, he headed a company that created the most effective lead-generation program in the financial services industry. RME revolutionized financial services marketing with its Seminar Success program, a marketing system that has created billions in sales for our clients.

Kenneth Ervin Young

Nick
Outman

Marshall
Tucker

Richard
Munassi, MD MBA

Mario
Rodriquez

Santo
Cannone

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Serial Entrepreneur

Startup Coach

Kenneth Ervin Young

Successful Serial Entrepreneur (1 IPO, 2 M&A), Startup Coach and Executive with 25+ year history of building companies from Concept through IPO or Merger. As part of my personal “Pay It Forward” Program, I mentor current graduate students enrolled in my alma mater, Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech), on how to use their resume to stand out from all the other soon-to-be graduates, how to prepare for interviews, how to ace interviews, how to review and negotiate offer of employment, and how to get off on the right foot at the new job.

My current day-to-day focus is two-pronged. First, as part of my personal “Pay It Forward” Program, I plan to dedicate part of each month working to assist Tampa/St Pete Entrepreneurs reach success, or pivot quickly, while avoiding the landmines that too often sink great product concepts. Second, as part of my “I Love Making Startups” Program, I am currently (1) Creating a Series of MOOC courses, and (2) Creating a Home Security Product.

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Focus In:

Attorney

Venture Capital &
Angel Investing

Lending

Entity Formation

General Corporate

Contracts

Nick Outman

Nick is a member of the Corporate & Tax Group at Hill Ward Henderson in Tampa. His practice focuses on venture capital and other private investment transactions, along with lending transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate advice. He primarily works with companies, investors, and lenders in all phases of a company’s life cycle to help prepare for, structure, and negotiate investment and loan transactions. He also regularly advises companies on business formation, contract negotiations, and other general corporate and business law matters. Nick is active with the Florida Venture Forum and is devoted to helping grow the tech startup and venture community in Tampa Bay.

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Marshall Tucker

Tampa Electric Company Manager Corporate Business Development in the Business Strategy, Policy and Analysis Department

Tampa Electric Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of TECO Energy, Inc. (TECO), which is a subsidiary of Emera Inc., a geographically diverse energy and services company headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

He is responsible for the development and execution of corporate and asset acquisition and divestiture transactions for Tampa Electric and its affiliated companies. Significant transactions that he has supported include the $6.5 billion sale of TECO to Emera Inc. in 2016, the sale of TECO Coal in 2015, the $950 million acquisition of New Mexico Gas Company in 2014, the $228 million sale of TECO’s Guatemalan generation assets in 2012 and the $405 million sale of TECO Transport in 2007.

Prior to joining the Business Strategy, Policy and Analysis department at TECO, he worked at TECO’s independent power subsidiary, TECO Power Services, Inc., arranging over $1.875 billion in non-recourse financing for power projects and TECO’s Treasury department on a variety of corporate finance activities. Prior to joining TECO, he worked in the investment banking department at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated in New York.

He has an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont.

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Focus In:

Healthcare Technology

Medical Device

Health IT

Early Stage Business Development

Richard Munassi, MD MBA

Dr. Richard Munassi is new to the Tampa WaVE, and brings a strong startup background focused on Healthcare Technology and early stage business development to the mentor team.

Dr. Munassi also sits on the Accelerator Committee for the Tampa Wave.

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Focus In:

Leadership

Operations

Management

Compliance

Employment Matters

Mario Rodriquez

Retired from the U.S. Army after 20 years of service (March 1988- July 2008) as an Airborne Sapper, Medic, Senior Small Group Leader, and Observer Controller.

Was the Safety, Compliance, Training and Development Manager for PODS, Inc. for five years before starting the Military Transitioning Employment Program at CareerSource Tampa Bay. Now serve as the Military Family Employment Advocate on MacDill AFB for CareerSource Tampa Bay.

Earned a Master Degree in Business with focus on International Business, a Master Degree in Project Management and studying for the Senior Professional Human Resource certification through the Veteran Career Transition Program sponsored by Syracuse University.

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Focus In:

Product Management

Go-to-Market

Sales

Operations

Financial Technology

Santo Cannone

Santo Cannone has over 35 years experience in the technology industry. Focused primarily in the financial technology space, with Fortune 500 companies EDS, FIS and Fiserv, he also was involved in early-stage companies, including Tampa-based ConnectWise. Santo's management experience includes Sales, Product Management, Operations, Product Development and General Management. Santo recently retired from Fiserv and is now providing consulting services around go-to-market strategies and product management to a select group of clients.

Jeff
Goble

Greg
Bosl

John
Morrow

Jordan
Casal

Chandra
Clines

Sam
Mallikarjunan

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Leadership

Strategy

Inter-Personal Communication

Organizational Design

Management Climate

Jeff Goble

Jeff is a retired, US Army Special Forces Colonel, with over 30 years of incredible leadership experiences throughout the world. He continues to serve by working with business leaders and other professionals, community and government leaders, and veterans of all walks of life to help them be better leaders and have impact in their organizations. He has over a decade of expertise in strategic planning and executive leadership, and an award-winning track record of managing complex problems, integrating multi-disciplinary international teams, improving organizational effectiveness, and producing strategic solutions. His career highlights include director of strategic planning for a global strategic military command; transforming a professional university into a nationally accredited, graduate degree producing institution; city manager of a military installation with a population of 10,000 and an annual budget of $150 million, and leadership of a multi-national military task force with 3000+ people from 16 different nations. Jeff's Special Forces experience and world travels give him a unique perspective on living and communicating with people in varied settings and cultures. With a dynamic and very engaging approach to his audience, Jeff is known as an enlightening “Edutainer”. His educational and entertaining seminars are loaded with personal anecdotes, humor, and some candid advice that provide value to professionals from start-up founders to C-Suite executives looking to be successful in the international marketplace.

Prior to Hyde Park Capital, Greg worked at EDF Trading in Houston where he had a broad mandate to source and execute transactions that were complementary to EDFT’s trading, distribution and services businesses. These transactions included M&A opportunities, joint ventures, minority investments, asset-based lending and commodity distribution transactions.

Greg began his career at Morgan Stanley in its Fixed Income Trading division and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business.

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Focus In:

Machine Learning

Data Science

Artificial Intelligence

John Morrow

John Morrow has launched and grown a number of technology companies. In 2006, he founded Morrow Consultants, which works with clients to evaluate and implement machine intelligence technology in their systems and products.

Prior to establishing Morrow Consultants, John served as CEO of Morrow Technologies Corporation, which he cofounded in 1984. The company’s microwave division, which was acquired in 2006, was known as an innovator of RF and microwave signal analysis equipment. Included among its customers were the U.S. Army, FCC, NSA, Intelsat, Echostar and NBC. Another division, Janus Displays, is a premier supplier of networked digital signage systems. For over twenty years, and with thousands of customers worldwide, Janus has continued to be the market leader in hotels, convention centers, casinos,
government facilities, and corporate headquarters.

Prior to founding Morrow Technologies Corporation, John served as president of MCED, Inc., a firm specializing in automation systems. The company was a prime contractor to Disney on the original EPCOT Center construction project at Walt Disney World in Orlando in the early 1980s.

John also serves on the executive and advisory boards for a number of companies and organizations.

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Focus In:

Sales Strategy

Product Development

Strategic Market Assessment

Experience Design

Jordan Casal

Jordan Casal is the founder of Ardent & Bold, a company focused on helping innovators build the future. Jordan has a passion for empowering innovators to push themselves and enjoys motivating people of all walks of life. He earned an undergraduate degree in Communication and a master's degree in Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies from the University Of South Florida. He also serves as chair of the USF Alumni Society of Entrepreneurs.

Jordan understands the unique challenges that confront entrepreneurs and has big plans to help grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Tampa Bay.

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Focus In:

Tax

Accounting Services

Bookkeeping

Chandra Clines

Chandra is a senior with Saltmarsh Cleaveland & Gund and is passionate about the mission of the Tampa Bay Wave. Chandra has experience with the following industries: tech start ups, construction, aviation, and manufacturing. Chandra is a Certified Public Accountant and a QuickBooks online ProAdvisor. Chandra would love to meet with you to discuss your vision and help you to get all of the financial information in order for investors.

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Focus In:

Innovation and Growth

Expansion

Sam Mallikarjunan

Sam Mallikarjunan is the Executive Strategist at HubSpot in Boston. He teaches digital marketing and innovation a Harvard University's Division of Continuing Education and the University of South Florida's Muma College of Business, Executive Education. He's the co-author of the book How to Sell Better Than Amazon (which, thanks to the publisher, is ironically available for purchase on Amazon).

Robyn
Spoto

Susan
Nieland

Thomas Stanton

Deon
Bradley

Shane Needham

JR Griggs

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Focus In:

Digital Marketing

Marketing Strategy

Business Development

Advertising

Team Development

Robyn Spoto

Robyn is founder and president of SpotOn Digital Media and offers strategy and leadership for all SpotOn clients. Robyn is an entrepreneur and experienced digital marketer and digital advertising sales specialist. Prior to starting SpotOn, she co-founded the MamaBear App and led its launch for the first two years with international media coverage and global use proving market acceptance. MamaBear was successfully acquired in 2016. During her career, she led the digital marketing team at the Florida Communications Group (TBO.com, The Tampa Tribune and WFLA), where all properties ranked #1 as Tampa Bay’s top preferences for news and information on web and mobile platforms. A proud Tampa native, Robyn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mass communication with a specialization in advertising from the University of South Florida. She earned her MBA from the University of Tampa. She currently serves Tampa Bay Wave as an Entrepreneur in Residence leading the women's vertical.

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Focus In:

Finance

Accounting

Financial Modeling

Cash Management

Strategic Planning

Tax Planning

Susan Nieland

A results driven senior financial executive and CPA with 25+ years of experience in finance and accounting who is able to apply creative solutions and teamwork to solving complex issues. Adept at converting complex accounting regulations into easy to understand, executable procedures. Able to quickly and easily translate business models into insightful financial models and budgets that can be used to drive business growth.

With a career that began in a “Big 8” accounting firm, over the past 10 years I've transitioned to working with startup and early-stage technology and financial services companies. I thrive under pressure and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. I am known for consistently delivering high quality product under tight deadlines. I also pride myself on being an active listener, creative problem solver and developing interpersonal relationships with honesty, humor and respect.

I help startup, early-stage and fast-growing companies with their finance and accounting needs, from simple bookkeeping questions to complex financial modeling assistance and tax planning.

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Focus In:

Intellectual Property

Thomas Stanton

Stanton IP Law Firm, P.A.Partner

Stanton IP Law Firm is a Tampa based law firm focusing on protecting, enforcing, and monetizing Intellectual Property rights for their clients by obtaining patents both in the US and abroad, trademarks at both the federal and state levels, copyrights on works of art, and keeping trade secrets confidential.

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Focus In:

Founders

Team-Building

Sales

Growth

Strategic Partnerships

Business Development

Deon Bradley

G. Deon Bradley is the Principle of Bradley Coaching and Consulting (www.BradleyCoaching.com). Since 1998, he has helped guide startups in a wide variety of verticals and has coached dozens of Founders from five countries. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Operation Startup Veterans Incubator at Hillsborough Community College. There, he serves as a Business Advisor and Chairman of the Business Advisors Committee. He is a graduate of DePaul University and a nationally-Certified Executive and Business Coach with over 35 years of experience leading Sales and Business Development teams at both startups and three Fortune 100 tech companies. Deon Specializes in coaching Founders and their leadership teams to maximize their performance and build lasting and effective organizations. He has worked with leading programs like the nationally-ranked Coleman Entrepreneurship Center at DePaul University and advises entrepreneurs at 1871 Chicago, the nation’s largest startup incubator. Deon also supports Founders as an Advisor for the online and offline platform, CoFoundersLab.com, a resource to over 15,000 entrepreneurs worldwide. He can be reached at Deon@BradleyCoaching.com or 704.604.8244

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Focus In:

Branding

Marketing

Communications

PR/Storytelling

Production

Shane Needham

Shane has a knack for using creative ideas and technology to help businesses communicate with their customers and their community. With nearly two decades in the advertising and marketing industry, Shane has worked on brands that range from Publix and The Home Depot to Adventist Health and The Tampa Bay Lightning.

Over the past ten years, Shane has led the production team at 22squared. Client-facing and results-driven, Shane has produced work across all mediums and has helped grow a team of talented producers to be both nimble and thoughtful in their execution of creative work.

Shane’s has a formal background in production, technology and brand storytelling. He believes that connection and cultivation is the best way to convert people to customers and customers to advocates.

Shane is a native Floridian, attended St. Petersburg College and has been a part of the Tampa Bay entrepreneurial community since 2010. His team, BumperCrop took second place nationally on the StartupBus in 2012, conducted the bus in 2015 and is very proud of Mobilize, a student advertising “hackathon” competition he founded and led for five years while at 22squared.

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Focus In:

Web Design

Digital Marketing

SEO

Adwords

JR Griggs

Founder and PresidentRed Wall Marketing

JR is the Founder and President of Red Wall Marketing, an agency he started in 2009. With over 16 years of sales and marketing experience, he’s been using his knowledge to help businesses grow. He has a passion for startups and loves to help people achieve more in both life and business.

He firmly believes marketing is everything in and to your business and has worked with businesses in a variety of industries to implement proven marketing strategies. He also serves on the marketing committee at Tampa Bay Wave and is the lead organizer of Startup Week Tampa Bay.

Kelly Kavanaugh

Eric Wiliams

Brandon Heitman

Bill Geiser

Nicholas Brunner

Arnie Perez

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Focus In:

Accounting Systems

Accounting

Strategic Planning

Budgeting

Human Resources, Benefits

Kelly Kavanaugh

Prior to joining CliftonLarsonAllen, she served as Chief Financial Officer for the Tampa Bay Partnership and the Tampa Bay Partnership Research & Education Foundation. In this role, she directed the financial affairs of the organization including financial plans, accounting policies, and financial reporting. Additionally, Ms. Kavanaugh was responsible for oversight of investor development, strategic planning, human resource functions as well as the organization’s office and technology systems. Ms. Kavanaugh played a critical role in the recent organizational restructuring and transformation from an economic development agency to a public policy, advocacy and lobbying group.

Prior to the Partnership, she served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Administration for Visit Tampa Bay. She simultaneously held the same role with the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, Inc. Previously, she was CFO and equity owner of Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services, a rehab agency serving Pasco County, and Specialized Infusion Care, Inc., a hospital based outpatient infusion. Her nonprofit industry experience exceeds 15 years serving in a CFO role. Ms. Kavanaugh has additional experience in the professional services industry having served as Assistant Controller for Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP and has served as CFO/equity owner for two privately held healthcare agencies.

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Focus In:

Retail Technology

Analytics

Consumer Marketing

Location-Based Marketing

Eric Williams

Eric Williams is the Principal at E2 Innovation Group which provides Advisory Services to startup and established companies in the Retail Technology, Consumer Promotion, and Retail Advertising space. His focus includes some key areas such as mobile & location-based solutions, electronic payments, and loyalty executions with specific skills in the area of technology selection & implementation, large data base selection & utilization, as well as the use of consumer analytics.

Williams spent over 35 years in the area of Retail Technology development and retired after almost 20 years with Catalina Marketing Corporation. While at Catalina he served as the executive vice president and chief information officer responsible for directing strategic technology, research and development, and new applications. Williams also served as the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) for Catalina Marketing and was responsible for the overall consumer privacy activity for the company.

He is an accomplished inventor with a number of US and International patents. In 2007, he was named CIO of the year by the Tampa Bay Technology Forum and in 2011, Information Week ranked Catalina Marketing as one of the top five most innovative technology organizations in the nation according to their Information Week 500 study. He was also one of Information Week’s featured CIOs in 2011 and both Catalina and Williams were featured in the cover article on Big Data that same year.

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Focus In:

HR

Employee Benefits

ATIS Technology

Compliance & Legal,

Payroll

Brandon Heitman

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Focus In:

Growth Strategy

Fund Raising

Wearable Technology

Joint-ventures, Spinn-Offs

Off-shore Manufacturing

Bill Geiser

Technology executive that founded & sold two start-up companies to publicly-traded corporations and who led corporate teams responsible for launching 75 IoT/connected device SKU’s for 17 major active lifestyle and technology brands including HP, Speedo, adidas, Fossil Group, Movado Group, Titan, Microsoft, Sony Ericsson and more.

Led turnaround of Fossil’s Watch Technology Division. Led ‘corporate innovation startups’ at both Fossil and HP. International experience - has managed business units in both the US & Europe.

Nicholas Brunner

Mr. Brunner is an Associate at Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners. He is responsible for evaluating investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, and assisting in the underwriting and execution of the firm’s growth equity investments. Additionally, Mr. Brunner supports active portfolio companies and holds board observation responsibilities for Choice Legal.

Mr. Brunner is actively involved with the Board of Counselors at the University of Tampa, the Florida Venture Forum, and is a member of the Educational Affairs Committee at the University of Tampa. He is frequent guest speaker at the University of Tampa, the University of South Florida, and the Hillsborough County Economic Development Corporation.
Mr. Brunner graduated with honors from the University of Tampa with a B.S. in Finance, Economics.

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Focus In:

IT Sales

Business Dveleopment

Marketing

Strategy

Arnie Perez

Founder and CEO at Blitz Sales and Marketing. International experience includes projects with multinational companies, specifically developing market entry and channel strategies. Currently working on multi-channel sales and marketing projects for SAP, Lexmark, HP, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm, Westcon, Ingram, Tech Data, Eaton and others. He frequently contributes with business articles related to Technology and IT Channels in various magazines, blogs and newspapers.

Arnie has a Bachelor degree in Philosophy from Gregorian University of Rome, Italy. Also a Business Administration degree from Tec de Monterrey in Mexico. And an MBA from University of Dallas. Arnie is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

Steve Rosen

Kevin D. Wolf

Brett Owens

Hal Edwards

Ricardo Daza

Scott Winston

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Focus In:

Technology

Software Engineering

Management

Human Resource Leadership

Steve Rosen

I have worked in the Talent Acquisition Business for more than 20 years. This is my passion, it's in my blood! My career in recruiting spans out among Agency Perm Placement, Technology Consulting and Corporate Environments both small and large centered around one niche; helping Information Technology Talent find a career path that they are passionate about!

I have spent 20+ years in Talent Acquisition hiring and placing individuals into critical Business & Technology roles specific to for some of the top Fortune 500 Organizations in the world GM, Ford, Blue Cross, Federal Government, Cisco, VMware and BAE Systems.

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Focus In:

Software Consulting

Software Engineering

Mobile

IoT

Kevin D. Wolf

Software Logistics was established by Kevin D. Wolf in 2001 as a high-end software consulting business. It has provided consulting and development services for many prominent international companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Intel, IBM, Qualcomm, Flickr, and American Airlines, as well as a number of highly successful Tampa Bay-based companies.

In 2008, Kevin D. Wolf was awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP designation for his work with Windows Mobile. According to Microsoft, "Microsoft MVPs are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. They are always on the 'bleeding edge' and have an unstoppable urge to get their hands on new, exciting technologies." This recognition is given to a very small number of programmers in the world. Since the initial award in 2008, Kevin D. Wolf has continued to receive this award annually.

In 2016, after a decade of building mobile apps, Software Logistics began to shift its focus to the Internet of Things (IoT). Prior to starting Software Logistics, Kevin D. Wolf had developed hardware and software for embedded systems for Weigh-Tronix, so transitioning back to controlling hardware with software was a natural fit. After designing numerous microcontroller based circuit boards, including the NiVek Quadcopter platform, Software Logistics started spending some time really understanding what is involved with an IoT solution.

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Focus In:

Labor and Employent Law

Employee Handbooks

Employment Policies and Procedures

Employee Defection and Trade Secrets

Kevin D. Wolf

Brett Owens is an associate in the Tampa office. His practice focuses on all aspects of labor and employment law, representing clients in a broad range of industries. He defends employers in various actions brought in state and federal courts, including individual claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Brett also assists clients with navigating the myriad of federal and state laws governing the employer-employee relationship to ensure compliance and reduce the risk of litigation. When employers are faced with litigation, Brett strategically relies upon the discovery process to position disputes for an early resolution. Through his advocacy and strategic approach, Brett’s efforts have resulted in numerous voluntary dismissals with prejudice in the early stages of litigation. When necessary, Brett has also assisted with trying several cases to verdict in state court.

Brett earned his JD, cum laude, from the University of Florida Frederic G. Levin College of Law in 2014. Brett also completed his MS in Management in 2011 and his MBA in 2014 from the University of Florida, Hough Graduate School of Business and graduated summa cum laude, with a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Florida in 2010.

While in law school, Brett was a Judicial Intern for the Honorable James S. Moody in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida. Additionally, Brett served as President of the Association of Law and Business, Vice President of the Levin College of Law Honor Committee, and Secretary of Florida Blue Key.

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Focus In:

Marketing Strategy

B2B Lead Generation

Advertising and Promotion

Marketing Analytics

Hal Edwards

Hal recently served as the Chief Marketing Officer of ConnectWise, a Tampa-based, highly innovative, best-in-class software company. During his eight year tenure at ConnectWise, the company grew from an entrepreneurial start-up of 50 passionate dreamers to an industry leading worldwide enterprise of 1,000 IT professionals. Simultaneously, Hal developed the marketing team from a modest group of 3 people to a highly effective department of 60+ marketing professionals delivering state of the art digital and traditional marketing solutions.

Hal has spent his diverse career in pursuit of marketing excellence both as the executive marketing leader in several Tampa-based international enterprises and as a principal executive in a number of national and regional marketing agencies. While on the agency side, Hal had the privilege of working with a wide variety of national marketing leaders including Anheuser Busch, Coca-Cola, FedEx, The Kellogg Company, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Nabisco, and Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts

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Focus In:

Decision-Making Uncertainty

Cybersecurity

Digitization of Business Processes

Digital Asset Protection

Ricardo Daza

I have worked in IT for 27 years and Security for the last 20, I have a strong technical background but my passion is producing tangible results that meet or exceed the organization’s expectations. Specifically I strive to combat this vendor driven, fear mongering industry with evidence based approach in both decision making and measurement of results. I also enjoy teaching and mentoring the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

Kevin Goodwin

Kevin leads the Global Customer Success teams at Malwarebytes a Silicon Valley tech firm. Joining in 2016, he ensures that all technology support decisions meet with company strategy and vision.
Kevin successfully led his own tech start-up to a successful exit in 2014. He also has played a key role within organizations in both start-up, high-growth enterprises, and traditional corporate environments. Whether as a senior leadership role creating best-in-class service cultures or an operations expert building the most efficient customer service organization in an industry, he creates value for companies and consumers.
Kevin's business networks extend to San Francisco, Denver, Salt Lake, Tampa Bay, Ireland, Estonia, and India.

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Focus In:

Industry Agnostic

Business plans, marketing strategy, technical support plans, general management consulting

Madeline Dent

Madeline Dent started her career as an engineer and broadened her expertise to general management with an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Her experiences include 14 years of management in both large and small companies in a variety of industries including electronics and equipment manufacturing. Madeline retired from Intel Corporation as a Senior Technical Marketing Manager responsible for technical support of Intel branded (non-OEM) products and was involved in the integration of multiple acquisitions. Prior to that, she was Vice President and General Manager of F. T. Crowe & Company, a crane manufacturer in Kent, WA, where she was responsible for everything from competitive analyses and business strategy to sales and marketing to engineering design and manufacturing.

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Focus In:

Financial Tech

E-Commerce

Internet of Things (IoT)

B2B/Software as a Service (Saas)

Industry Agnostic (Open to any vertical)

Doug Garis

Doug Garis has more than 10 years of strong FP&A experience in multiple industries including professional services, digital sales and marketing, logistics and recently in manufacturing as the Global Leader of FP&A at Masonite [NYSE: DOOR]. Doug currently serves as the Digital Finance Leader for Masonite and as CFO of Masonite’s newest business venture- Advisar™ where he co-founded the business, and provides strategic financial and analytical oversight to drive new customer acquisitions, platform adoption and hyper expansion efforts.

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Focus In:

Statistical Methodology

Health Care Policy

Healthcare Economics

Data Analytics

Thomas Vacca

I am a former member of the United States Air Force with service time beginning in 2008 with termination of service in 2014. I served one deployment in Iraq between 2009 and 2010 where I served in operations protecting 1.5 Billion in assets. Upon return, I studied psychology with a focus in biopsychology at The University of Tampa from 2011 - 2014 while finishing my time in the military. I then attended the Univesity of Louisville to go on and receive my masters in public health while focused in biostatistics. My first role was as a consultant with Imperium health management in analytics to identify health care trends in the medicare markets and evaluate the new value based policies and rules coming from the Center of Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS). l returned to Tampa to take a role with Baycare Health System as a Population health analyst which eventually led to my position with Florida Blue for over the last year and a half. I work in their Medical Economics department aiding in value based health care analytics along with evaluating health care contracts with business partners and providing quarterly financial updates.

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Focus In:

Private equity and alternative investments

Financing

Private wealth

Business Modeling and forecasting

Strategic growth

Kyle Melear

Kyle is a Wealth Advisor with the Private Banking & Investment Group at Merrill Lynch. A disciplined portfolio manager, he closely monitors the impact of macro-economic movements, refining strategies and tactics in light of changing market themes. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Kyle worked for a private equity and alternative investment firm in Philadelphia, focusing on growth, financial analysis and strategic initiatives for the various portfolio companies owned by the firm. Kyle has an extensive background in building business models and running scenario analysis. Kyle enjoys using his background in finance to help Wave companies any way that he can.

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Focus In:

Telecommunications including Wireless Technology

Business Strategy & Development

David Eason

A results-driven business leader with almost 20 years experience in business development, partner development, strategy, solutions development, project management, sales and market management in the telecom infrastructure market. Successfully managed a telecommunication solutions company for 19 years driving revenue growth with smaller telecom carriers in rural USA and the Caribbean.

An entrepreneurial approach to business has developed the ability to continuously strive for optimal process improvement. Conducted business on every continent and in over 30 countries, and developed the aptitude for operating in a wide array of cultures.

Started my career in 1986 at AT&T Bell Laboratories as an Engineer and subsequently worked in Product Management and Market Management.

Possess a strong technical knowledge of telecommunication systems and a solid understanding of the business side of telecom. Education background includes a MS in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a MBA from Columbia University.

Board member for CEO Council of Tampa, Tampa Bay WaVE, Computer Mentors Group and Caribbean American National Development Organization.

Passionate about helping our young people to develop the right business skills to enable them to become successful entrepreneurs.

Dominic Natale

Janice Pratt

Kailah Matyas

Kostas Stoilas

Steven Fiske

Stewart Kelly

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Focus In:

Early Stage Startups

Business Strategy

Sales Strategy

Marketing

Dominic Natale

Entrepreneur in various business sectors, currently focused on renewable energy. Working on developing a new division for Tesla Inc. involving installation of solar panels coupled with battery solutions for residential consumers on the east coast. Previously cofounded businesses ranging from data analytics in healthcare to ecommerce in fashion.

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Focus In:

Branding

Brand Promotion

Marketing Communications

Corporate Identity programs

Janice Pratt

Proforma JP Marcom AdvantageOwner/President

With over 20 years of professional Marketing and Communications experience, I help businesses enhance, promote, and sustain their brand to facilitate increased sales and build stronger customer and employee relationships.

Kailah Matyas

Redwood PartnersManaging Partner

Kailah Matyas is the Managing Partner of Redwood Partners, an executive search and venture firm that works with emerging technology companies. Kailah is responsible for global assignments, specifically covering Redwood’s European, US and Asia Pacific regions. Her years of experience working with international high-growth companies has made her expert at interpreting business goals into human capital needs and realizing the best people to build successful businesses. She has successfully built global executive teams for companies within the mobile, internet and digital media sectors and has particular expertise with cross border searches. Kailah opened Redwood’s London office and has been instrumental in developing the Company’s global Executive Search practice. She has been with Redwood for over twenty years and was previously with a start up where she was responsible for building and launching their web/eCommerce strategy. Kailah holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from George Washington University.

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Focus In:

Fundraising

Startup Planning

Commercial Real Estate

Office Leasing

Investments

Kostas Stoilas

Fortress Commercial Real EstateManaging Member

12 years of real estate experience in Florida. The last 10 years have been focused in Tampa Bay and the I-4 Corridor, with over 10 million SF of transactions closed, and many thousands of acres of land sold in Central and SW Florida.

MBA from the University of Tampa
MS in Management/Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS in Management Information Systems from The Florida State University

Active on committees and boards including the Bay Area Advisors, Tampa Bay WaVE, and Professional Philanthropic Network helping raise millions of dollars for local non-profits and charities.

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Focus In:

Entrepreneurship

Product Management

Marketing

UX

Design

Steven Fiske

HivelocityHead of Product

Steve Fiske is a serial entrepreneur and product leader with over 10 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering products to the masses. Currently, he is the Head of Product at Hivelocity, where he leads product management and development efforts.

Prior to Hivelocity, Steve was a founding partner in several ventures, most notably UniKey Technologies, which he helped grow from 2 people to 60, with many partners worldwide, and product available at Apple, Best Buy, Target, & others. They kick started the smart lock industry by going on Shark Tank in 2012. UniKey has accepted the Governor’s Business Ambassador Award for their rapid growth and raised over $20M to date. Steve now sits on the Advisory Board.

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Focus In:

Sales Strategy

Contract Negotiations

Diversity

Innovation

Relationships

Stewart Kelly

Florida BlueAccount Executive - Large Group

Just under 10 years of experience with the largest health insurance carrier in the state ranging from Individual to National Accounts experience. Licensed agent in Life, Health, and Annuities in the state of Florida with expert knowledge of Healthcare Insurance industry trends and Affordable Care Act. A strong results driven sales executive with a track record of connecting generation gaps in sales cycle and data analysis. An industry expert with the leader in emerging healthcare trends and sales strategies with a focus on complex sales cycles and barriers to entry. An active leader in creative sales tactics to improve sales target metrics.

Sean McCoy

Brent Britton

Troy Michels

Tina Agustiady

Andrew Adams, Sr.

Rick Hanley

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Focus In:

Strategy

Marketing

Customer experience

Operations

People/org

Sean McCoy

Director, StrategyIdeal Image

1) Worked at The Boston Consulting Group for clients in financial services, online retail, manufacturing, QSR, aerospace, consumer brand, non-profit, and public sector industries
2) Served as an Infantry officer in Iraq & Germany
3) Worked at small healthcare tech firm
4) Work at nationwide retailer on strategy, marketing, & operations
5) Chair West Point's Leadership & Ethics Conference in Tampa Bay

Troy Michels

Chief Product OfficerAdministrate

Troy has spent his career growing startups. With an engineering background, Troy worked in a variety of roles including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Product through the growth of healthcare startup, Sentry Data Systems in Deerfield Beach, FL. After 9 years of growth and an exit, Troy became the Chief Product Officer at Administrate, Ltd., an EdTech Startup based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Switching Industries and moving to an international company added crucial perspective to identify the common patterns in SaaS growth startups.

Troy loves building teams, building products, and building the community which can help others be successful.

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Tina Agustiady

Her many activities and responsibilities include serving as the past Lean Division President and current Technical Vice President of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). She has served as a board director and chairman for the IISE annual conferences and Lean Six Sigma conferences.

Agustiady is an instructor who trains and certifies students for Lean, Six Sigma, Innovation, Design of Experiments and Business Process Management for IISE, Lean Sigma Corporation, Six Sigma Digest, and Villanova/Bisk University. She is a Subject Matter Expert, Professor and Course Designer for professional certification programs, including undergraduate and graduate degrees at Villanova University and Bisk Education.

Her accomplishments as a writer and author include serving as an editor for the International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage. She has co-authored "Statistical Techniques for Project Control", "Sustainability: Utilizing Lean Six Sigma Techniques", "Total Productive Maintenance: Strategies and Implementation Guide". She also authored "Communication for Continuous Improvement Projects" and her recently published book, "Design for Six Sigma: A Practical Approach through Innovation". She is a series editor for CRC Press/Taylor and Francis series Continuous Improvement and Lean Innovation and Management.

She was honored to be a Feigenbaum medalist for 2016 and a Crosby medalist for 2018.

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Focus In:

Privacy Law

Executive Management

Compliance

Business Strategy

Risk Management

Andrew Adams, Sr.

Senior ExecutiveAdams Consulting

Seasoned senior executive delivering high-quality, strategic legal and business advice. General Counsel and CFO for high-tech companies, from start-ups to the Fortune 500. Substantive experience managing legal and financial departments. 15+ years reporting to and working with C-level executives.

Rick Hanley

From an early age, Rick was immersed in retail and consumer marketing. Watching his father operate a chain of department stores sparked his ongoing fascination with business, numbers, and operations. These early experiences led him to a finance career spanning roles in technology, retail, marketing, and CPG. He has led teams in FP&A, Sales Finance and New Business Development. Startups and business valuation continue to be a recurring theme throughout his career.

Rick is the CFO of Marxent, a technology-based 3D design and visualization company aimed at simplifying the consumer buying experience. Current responsibilities include finance, HR, pricing, operations, investor relations, and fundraising. During Rick’s tenure, Marxent has raised just under $19MM of venture capital and grown from three employees to almost 70 today.

Rick describes himself as obsessed with solving puzzles. His “superhero ability” is converting ideas into numbers, thereby accelerating the ideation process by quickly digesting complex business cases into key variables, and providing a litmus test for success.

Kalpesh Patel

Christopher Tain

Gwen Tormey

Christopher McElveen

Matthew McNulty

Debbie Lundberg

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Focus In:

Health Tech

Education Tech

Consumer Tech

Real Estate Tech

Kalpesh Patel

Corporate & Technology AttorneyFL Patel Law PLLC

Attorney Kalpesh Patel earned degrees in Business Management and Business Administration at University of Illinois Springfield before earning a Juris Doctor with pro bono honors from Florida Coastal School of Law. He also studied international sales and international civil dispute resolution with University of Miami School of Law.

Patel's diverse background in law and business development aided in the launch of his firm, FL Patel Law PLLC, a Florida-based law firm offering services in business and corporate law. He began his career in Illinois in where he was a 711 licensed law clerk with the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation. During that time, he appeared before county courts in Central Illinois helping senior citizens and victims of domestic violence. From there, he worked as a civil defense attorney with a prominent downtown Chicago law firm where he worked closely with Fortune 500 corporations. He gained the skills to become a top litigator which he took with him to start his first law firm, Wallock | Patel, in Chicago where he provided legal counsel for start-up companies.

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Focus In:

Early Stage Business Development

SaaS and Blockchain Initiatives

Marketing Strategy

Business Strategy

Team Development

Christopher Tain

Founder and Chief Strategy OfficereWorkSuccess

Chris is the founder of eWorkSuccess and offers strategy and leadership for eWS clients. Prior to starting eWS, he was the CIO of Fast-teks and Fast-Teks Pro national franchise organization. Chris led the launch of Fast-teks IT services from a logo sketch on a piece of paper to over 200 franchise locations. Fast-teks was a Top Ranked company on the Entrepreneur Franchise 500 list and achieved the #1 spot in the tech category in 2011 and received the Best Business award in 2012. Fast-Teks Pro was developed to align with B2B managed IT services, add new revenue streams and strengthen the company position with branded IT solutions. Chris has a business management and marketing background with over 15 years of business development experience. He is a business strategist and likes to connect with like-minded professionals to solve real-world problems.

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Focus In:

Financial modeling

Fundraising

Customer and product strategy & planning

BizOps analytics

Operations: process design & improvement

Digital health

Gwen Tormey

VP Strategy & OperationsCorestream

Gwen is VP of Strategy and Business Operations at Corestream, a Tampa-based benefits technology company. She leads new product and sales strategy, company KPI goal-setting, business analytics, and operational process improvement initiatives across the company. She also leads the vendor relations team and the discount shopping product team. Prior to Corestream, Gwen was Director of Product Operations at Stride Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company. Prior to that, Gwen started Footstep Labs, a physical therapy telehealth startup. Gwen began her career in private equity investing and management consulting at Goldman Sachs, Golden Gate Capital, and Bain & Company. She has both an BS and MBA from Stanford University.

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Focus In:

Encryption

Compression

Data

Information Theory

Physics

Christopher McElveen

Chris has been researching, designing, and creating solutions to efficiency problems for over a decade. He has been an active options trader for over eight years and has secured many winning trades. He has been a part of several technology startups in Tampa and Silicon Valley. Years of research and field experience contribute to Chris’s refined understanding of data. Throughout Chris’s education, his fields of research have spanned the studies of physics and number theory. In 2015, he helped program Flow Crpyt, the second most downloaded end to end email encryption app in the Google Play Store, with over 20,000 active users. Most recently, he worked as a Geographic Information Systems Analyst which honed his holistic view of data science. Chris’s passion for tech has led to competing in hackathons and mentoring tech startups. He is a former collegiate javelin and hammer thrower and promoter of tolerance and teamwork. His keen interest in large file transmission technologies inspired the birth of LogN and its pending patent.

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Focus In:

Marketing Strategy & Planning

Product Management

Revenue and Profit Growth

Leading and Developing Teams

Business & Market Development

Strategic Planning

M&A, Corporate Development

Matthew McNulty

Matthew McNulty is a diversified business professional with nearly 25 years of experience across multiple industries and geographies. An innovative and strategic thinker who can lead with confidence, yet retains a hands on approach that yields significant improvement and his management style quickly establishes the loyalty of his teammates and peers.

Matthew is currently employed by Tribridge (a DXC Technology company) as the executive responsible for the $50MM consumer and industrial products industry vertical. Tribridge is a business and technology services firm with a focus on improving business outcomes through the implementation of operational change and purpose built technology solutions. Reporting to the Chief Sales and Solutions Officer, his main responsibility is to define and drive the market approach and strategy to support the growth of the vertical.

Prior to Tribridge, Matthew was a Principal in an investment syndicate focused on investing in and growing early stage software and technology companies. He was responsible for developing and implementing aggressive growth strategies, providing management oversight and building plans to ensure long term success for all portfolio companies. All holdings enjoyed significant growth and were exited with positive returns.

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Focus In:

Effective Communication

Business Processes

Presentation Skills

Executive Presence

Team Creation & Building

Debbie Lundberg

Debbie Lundberg believes "how you present is how you are remembered”! As a 10-time published author, certified life coach, certified leadership coach, and certified image consultant who speaks, facilitates, trains and coaches nationally, Debbie has been recognized in the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Best in the Biz as a Top 10 Business-oriented Speaker for 5 years consecutively, and as a BusinessWoman of the Year Finalist.

Serving as a MacDill Air Force Base Honorary Commander, Past Chairwoman of the Centre Club Board of Governors, recent 6-year Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors member, Miss America Scholarship Pageant Preliminary Judge, Leadership Tampa Alumnus, and University of Tampa Board of Fellow, Debbie captures a combination of automotive industry leadership with a Dale Carnegie Training background, followed by consulting for a national organization, prior to launching her Florida-based National firm in 2006.

Debbie earned a BA at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and holds an MBA from Edgewood College in Madison, WI

Kim Stebbings

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Kim Stebbings

Kim has 35+ years of U.S. medical device sales, marketing and operational experience in multi-national and start-up companies. She spent 16 years with Boehringer Mannheim/Roche where she held multiple positions in sales/ marketing including P&L responsibility for a $100 million diabetes care diagnostics business. The balance of her career has been dedicated to leading start-up medical device organizations with game-changing technologies including BioStar, a diagnostics company sold to Thermo Electron (NYSE:TMO), Medingo, an Israeli insulin patch pump company acquired by Roche (ROG.VX), Anodyne Therapy, a pain management company and GlycoMark, a start-up subsidiary of Toyota. Kim retired in May 2017 as U.S. President of DYSIS Medical, Inc., where she built the U.S. business to a team of 20 with revenues exceeding $1.2 MM in the first year. She was also integrally involved in managing a 7500 patient study, and the study publications and reimbursement strategy. Under her guidance, her team built a national network of DYSIS Cervical Centers of Excellence offering this transformational imaging system that improves accuracy in detecting pre-cancers in women with abnormal Pap smears.

Kim was Director of Mentoring for the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, a member of Vistage, and in 2015, earned recognition as the Tampa Bay Businesswoman of the Year in the Health and Wellness category. She currently consults with DYSIS and mentors a number of entrepreneurs at the Florida-Israeli Business Accelerator (www.fiba.io), and University of Tampa’s Entrepreneurship Program.

In addition to a robust mentor network, Tampa Bay Wave’s Executive Entrepreneur-in-Residence program offers another level of engagement for our Grow-stage companies to get deep, executive engagement from local CEOs and founders that have had significant exits from their companies.

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